and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

Then they made the men stand before them and demanded, "By what power, or in what name, have you fellows done this?"

"be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand before you strong and well.

He said to them, "Go take your stand in the Temple, and continue to tell the people all the words of this Life."

"For I perceive that you still stand in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of unrighteousness."

"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he said: "Stand up and go into the city, and there you shall be told what you must do."

but Peter lifted him up. "Stand up," he said, "I am only a man, myself."

said in a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!"

"'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you.

"But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come;

"'Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you the lives of all who are sailing with you.'